Pictures of the day: 8 January 2014

A team of enthusiastic scientists are dressing in space suits and recreating life on Mars - in a rocky red desert on Earth. Researchers from the Mars Society live at a simulated Martian base, built with the help of American space agency Nasa. Every time the team of four men and two women leave the Mars Desert Research Station they must pass through an air lock. The cramped, two-storey hut is situated 40 miles from Hanksville, in Utah, United States, with the crew sleeping in small, coffin-like beds.Picture: James Cheadle/Solent News